Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Take more professional photographs by learning how to use your digital camera. Learn to use your camera on manual, and settings on your icon mode dial. Stop motion, blurred motion, perspective, composition and other situations will be discussed and used for assignments. Joan Cecil, has taught photography for 14 years at Alamance Community... Read More →
Featured readers at January's Flyleaf Books Second Thursday Poetry Reading will be Chris Tonelli and Ashley Harris. CHRIS TONELLI is the author of five chapbooks and two full-length collections, most recently Whatever Stasis (Barrelhouse Books). ASHLEY HARRIS is the author of If the hero of time was black. She has published short stories and poems... Read More →
The owners and artists of Mike’s Art Truck are happy to return to the Orange County Main Public Library in Hillsborough with a new collection of self-taught art featuring work by three popular folk artists: Ruby C. Williams, Michael Banks, and Sam Ezell. Roadside paintings by Ruby C. Williams like those in the exhibit once... Read More →
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and Mike’s Art Truck are happy to present “Off the Grid: Art by Eric Legge” at the Alexander Dickson House, home of the Hillsborough Visitors Center. The exhibit is on view now through March 14, 2019. Self-taught artist Eric Legge leads a peaceful life “off the grid” in the mountains... Read More →
Fafnir Adamites, a sculptor from Western Massachusetts, will be visiting Chapel Hill as an artist-in-residence at Level Retreat thanks to an artist grant from the Orange County Arts Commission. During her stay, she will be hosting this free artist talk and hands-on demonstration about her process. Fafnir uses traditional craft processes – such as feltmaking,... Read More →
We’ve curated two house teams with some of the best improvisers in The Triangle! Come see them perform every Friday night at 8:00!
Holly & Hess & Hunicutt have over 10,000 years of improv comedy to their names. All three are veteran performers in Chicago and Los Angeles, having played together regularly over the past two decades at Chicago's iO Theater, iO West in Los Angeles, and UCB, among others. Holly Laurent (Second City Mainstage,The Reckoning), Greg Hess... Read More →
Join us on Wednesday and Friday nights for a FREE open mic! Sign ups begin 30 minutes prior to show times.
Travel Journaling is a class where the instructors take you outside and show you how to observe and capture the environment around you, also called painting in “Plein Air”. These drawing classes are taught by FRANK artist Nerys Levy and Carroll Lassiter. You will learn how to draw landscapes, get an understanding of value, line... Read More →
Please join us at FRANK Gallery for a dramatic reading and discussion lead by historian and photographer Peter Filene one of our featured artists for January. Peter recently wrote and published "Striving Fathers, Troubled Sons" which "dramatizes the history of manhood-making in America through the intimate narratives of seven families: the Adamses; the Rockefellers; Woodrow... Read More →
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